I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.